But this simply configures the issue as one of distribution

06:09 Oct 15, 2013

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English term or phrase: But this simply configures the issue as one of distribution

This is because they rely on a ‘banking’ model of education. Business schools treat knowledge as a kind of currency, and behave like old-fashioned retail banks. The practical experience of mangers and business-people is gathered up by researchers, converted into general models and theories, stored in journals and books, and then sold back to practitioners. Most people have to physically go to a business school to get access to this knowledge – just as they would go to their local bank branch to access their money. Even distance learning is the equivalent of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM): you can download your distance education package over the internet. {But this simply configures the issue as one of distribution}: the knowledge is disconnected from practice, packaged in discrete parcels posted, e-mailed or uploaded for later consumption. Distance assumes that students – even experienced managers – are at a distance from the source of knowledge – the business school.

这句话没看明白是啥意思。

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参见这个句子：But the metaphor of the ATM simply configures the problem as one of distribution

Sheldon Fu

但这只简单的把问题变成了一种可分销的教育模式。

Ying Li

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1 hr confidence:

but this simply configures the issue as one of distribution 参见这个句子：But the metaphor of the ATM simply configures the problem as one of distribution

Explanation:
链接为：
http://www.coachingourselves.com/fr/content/article-jonathan...

基本是同一篇文章，希望有助于理解。

Sheldon Fu
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Asker: 那个句子同样看不懂啊。

2 hrs confidence:

but this simply configures the issue as one of distribution 但这只简单的把问题变成了一种可分销的教育模式。

Explanation:
这里断名应是：But this simply configures the issue as one （that)of distribution

the issue 是指banking’ model of education，configure: arrange or set up in a particular way. 以某种形式。

大概就是说，商学院把知识当作货币，远程学习学生不用去零售银行，可以通过“取款机”学习，本质没变，这只简单的把问题变成了一种可分销的教育模式。（通过远程学习来分销）

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Note added at 3 hrs (2013-10-15 09:13:59 GMT)
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断名=断句， sorry.

Ying Li
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